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Base Salary: $200k- $250k
Company summary:
Teragonia, a robustly capitalized startup with a well-established clientele, is dedicated to transforming the financial sponsor universe through cutting-edge data science and AI solutions. Our mission is to reimagine how financial sponsors execute their investment thesis, from sourcing to exit, and maximize value to all stakeholders (financial sponsors comprise private equity firms, venture capitalists, family funds, and sovereign wealth funds). We seek to accomplish this mission through an industry-aligned operating model that optimally blends business domain knowledge, technology, and quantitative techniques.
Our core offerings include: (i) business intelligence applications, (ii) enterprise solutions that provide data science and operations research-driven insights to business users, and (iii) data science consulting.
Teragonia offers a comprehensive career development platform through cross-learning within our multidisciplinary structure. We nurture a diverse, inclusive, collaborative, respectful, and collegial environment. Our competitive compensation package aligns with industry leaders, encompassing 401k contribution matching, medical insurance, and additional benefits.
Division summary:
Teragonias Data Science and Operations Research (DS&OR) consulting division centers around the financial sponsor industry, given the important role the industry plays in fostering innovation and improving operating efficiency in the economy, while providing access to substantial private capital to startups and middle market companies. We specialize in leveraging innovative statistical, optimization, and AI/ML models to solve business problems and generate transformative business value.
We champion the professional growth and development of our team members, offering focused education, diverse professional experiences, and mentorship. We understand the importance of balancing between professional advancement and personal pursuits. Our team fosters a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.
Job summary:
We are particularly interested in candidates who operate with integrity, intellectual humility, and a long-term career commitment. The ideal candidate for this role will have a solid foundation, and experience in data science, mathematical modeling, and programming. You should have the ability to extract, summarize and articulate meaningful business insights to our financial sponsor clients. As a Lead Data Scientist at Teragonia, you will be a significant contributor to our service delivery, innovation, business development, practice development and thought leadership. You will have the opportunity, and the management support, to develop specialized knowledge of data science and AI applications in a chosen industry or domain.
You will possess excellent leadership and project management skills, and be eager to develop as a key executive in the DS&OR division as your career with us progresses. We will provide appropriate mentorship and company selected resources for your leadership skills development.
Service delivery - technical skills:
As a Lead Data Scientist, you will be quick to understand the clients business needs and identify data-driven solutions. You will have a lead role in managing the engagement work flows, staffing, timelines and service quality. The ideal candidate is a hands-on problem solver, while simultaneously guiding the engagement team in using the relevant statistical, operations research, and machine learning techniques to analyze data and develop predictive models within the clients business context. You will have excellent attention to detail, project management skills and the ability to work effectively as part of our diverse multidisciplinary team of business analysts, software engineers, financial engineers, and operations researchers.
You will have a deep understanding of the business applications of data science to enable revenue growth and cost optimization for our clients. You will be passionate about continuous professional development in your chosen area of specialization, and develop and utilize expertise in technical research and review of existing solutions and literature relevant to the problem at hand.
You should be able to write clean code efficiently, to develop advanced models. You will have access to company selected resources and training programs to further develop your coding skills.
Transforming low-hygiene data sets to develop organized databases with high fidelity is a necessary part of the job. The ideal candidate is an expert in data wrangling skills, and possesses excellent knowledge of the software tools used for service delivery, including data manipulation and data visualization software. You will develop deep expertise in the Teragonia technology stack, for which we will provide appropriate training resources to the extent such tools are new to you.
Service delivery - engagement and client management:
You could be managing multiple client engagements simultaneously, or a large and complex engagement, and the scope of the engagement could evolve based on changing client needs. The financial sponsor universe demands actionable insights in a relatively short period. As such, the engagement duration typically lasts a few weeks relative to longer-duration projects at large global corporations. The ideal candidate will be excited about leading teams and solving a variety of business problems in parallel, in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
The engagement planning and status update meetings are critical to Teragonias innovation process and maintaining high quality standards and efficiency. More importantly, they contribute to your professional development. You will actively lead the engagement planning and brainstorming sessions by presenting your own ideas, asking questions, challenging the ideas presented and lay out the project management plan including resource allocation, tasks assignment, priorities, timelines.
You will discuss the project management plan with the engagement leader to obtain necessary approvals and ensure the engagement team has a clear understanding of the project plan and is kept abreast of any updates or changes to the plan as the engagement progresses. You will monitor progress against the project management plan, and update the senior officers as needed. You will also be responsible for managing the engagement budget, identify potential overages as early as possible, and work with the engagement leader to effectively manage the engagement margin.
You will have strong communication and presentation skills and be able to clearly articulate to the team, engagement leader(s) and the client, the business applications and impact of the data science and quantitative concepts and principles relevant to the problem at hand.
Specialization:
You will develop specialized knowledge of data science and AI applications in a chosen industry or a domain (examples include, but not limited to, pricing, sales and marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, SaaS) or a combination of domain and industry that aligns with Teragonias strategic goals. Teragonia will provide appropriate resources to develop your knowledge in the tools and the chosen industry and domain.
Innovation:
Constant, purpose-led innovation is central to Teragonias success. You will work closely with a cross-functional team of data scientists, business analysts and software engineers to research, ideate, develop and test scalable data science enterprise applications. Innovating our processes to improve efficiency and novel solutions to our clients business problems will be highly regarded by the executive leadership.
Practice development- training:
As a Lead Data Scientist, you will supervise, mentor and develop the junior data scientists both in an on-the-job and classroom settings. We operate on a team-first basis and your ability to mentor and develop the junior members is critical. You will also develop and lead the training programs in your chosen area of specialization to the DS&OR, Business Analytics and Software Engineering teams, as is relevant for the trainees day-to-day functions and responsibilities.
Practice development - recruitment:
You will be an active contributor in Teragonias recruitment efforts to attract top talent. You will assist the senior officers in promoting the open positions and help with the development, supervision and evaluation of the applicable knowledge and skill assessment tests.
Practice development - marketing:
You will assist the executive leadership and the officers with strategic marketing initiatives, and play an active role in preparing marketing materials such as pitch decks, case studies, and online marketing campaigns.
You will play an important role in the client account relationship development teams assigned to you by the executive leadership including researching the clients investment objectives and theses, portfolio companies, organizing social events and training programs for the clients investment teams, developing and maintaining the clients awareness of Teragonias service and product offerings as well as relevant credentials, developing working relationships with at least your peer level client officers, and documenting the account management activities in Teragonias CRM system.
Thought leadership
You will actively assist with conducting research for thought leadership initiatives in your chosen area of specialization, including publishing white papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals, presenting at conferences, and relevant domain
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